Is revenge really a dish best served cold? Nocturnal Animals seems to think so. Ford’s thrilling second feature is an artistic film, telling a dark and twisted story within a story about love and vengeance. Its three interrelated stories reflect and contrast one another, but are focused around Susan (Adams), a successful art gallery owner, who […]
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A movie about Barack Obama, titled Barry? I had my doubts, but it was actually pretty good. Barry is the second film to portray a young Obama, and it delves even deeper into the President’s past. It depicts his first year at Columbia University in 1981, where he struggles to stay connected to his mother and […]
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Grandma brushes off the abortion stigma. It doesn’t treat it like a life-altering moment, but instead as a standard medical procedure. I liked the no-nonsense attitude presented in this film. It’s exactly what I was in the mood to see. This is a great little indie that’s light in tone and short in length, featuring Lily […]
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It might be overdone, but the post-apocalyptic genre is continuously consumed by our culture. From zombies, aliens and vampires, depictions of life after the end of the world are pretty saturated, as we’ve seen it all before… But maybe not. Into the Forest is a more realistic and grounded take on the genre, which focuses on the […]
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Pleasantly funny, unassuming and strangely compelling, are some of the ways I would describe Hunt for the Wilderpeople. Waititi delivers a light comedy-drama, that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Dennison portrays Ricky Baker, a rebellious young boy who gets sent to live with a couple on a remote farm in the New Zealand countryside. Chaos ensues […]
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There’s something about bad mothers in horror films that send shivers down my spine. In Bryan Bertino’s The Monster, not only have we been given a hellish creature, but also a troubled mother, faced with protecting the daughter she has mistreated. The film follows Kathy (Zoe Kazan) and her child Lizzy (Ella Ballentine), whose car breaks down on […]
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Everything about Drive is just cool. It’s the film that introduced me to Ryan Gosling and I’ve been a fan ever since. He portrays ‘Driver’, a Hollywood stuntman by day, but a ruthless getaway driver by night. When he steps in to protect next-door neighbour Irene (Carey Mulligan) and her son, from the gangsters that her husband […]
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Can you blame a man for a crime he committed as a child? This is one of the questions melodrama, Boy A – adapted from Johnathan Tigwell’s novel – explores in abundance. The film tells the story of a rehabilitated juvenile killer (Garfield), the newspapers once called “Boy A”. After spending fourteen years in prison, he attempts […]
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It’s a filthy job getting to the top, especially for corrupt Edinburgh cop, Bruce Robertson (James McAvoy), who’s determined to secure a promotion to detective inspector. Drug-abusing and hard-drinking, he’s willing to do whatever means necessary to get what he wants. I’m always a sucker for any film starring James McAvoy. In comedy-drama Filth, adapted from […]
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If you only like Eddie Murphy when he’s talking to animals or when he’s playing a wacky scientist, then it’s best you stick to watching The Nutty Professor and Dr Dolittle, as he takes on a very subdued role in drama film, Mr. Church. Murphy shines as Henry Joseph Church, a talented cook who comes to live with a young girl, […]
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Living in the wilderness would be gruelling for most people, but the quirky gang in Captain Fantastic show us how it’s done. Viggo Mortensen plays super-dad Ben Cash in this heart-warming drama. He is the father of six kids, who have very peculiar names like Rellian and Bodevan, and he raises his children deep in the woods. […]
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Why are British directors so good at making gritty and brutally comical films? That’s what we get in Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers. It’s a horror-comedy about a couple, Chris (Steve Oram) and Tina (Alice Lowe), who go on a cross-country road trip, and unleash their homicidal rage on anyone who rubs them up the wrong way. […]
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